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Michael Gove under fire for comparing himself to KKK leader

Michael Gove, former British cabinet minister and leading Brexit campaigner, is in hot water after comparing himself to a Ku Klux Klan leader.

Gove, who was U.K. justice secretary until being fired by Theresa May, was speaking to the Society of Legal Scholars in Oxford when he reportedly joked: “I feel rather like the grand wizard of the KKK giving an address to the AGM of Black Lives Matter.”

The legal society distanced himself from the remarks, made at its annual conference on September 7, Politics Home reports.

“In the course of his speech, aware that his academic audience might be largely hostile given his position on Brexit, Mr. Gove drew an analogy, the gist of which has since been tweeted. The Society wishes to distance itself clearly and unequivocally from this comment and sincerely regrets that it was made and caused offence,” the legal society said.

The SLS said in a statement that the invitation for Gove to speak was issued while he was still justice minister and Lord Chancellor, Politics Home reports.

Gove’s stock has fallen dramatically since the June 23 vote to leave the EU. He was expected to back Boris Johnson’s bid to replace David Cameron as prime minister, but instead launched his own leadership bid, derailing Johnson’s bid in the process. Gove finished third in the Tory leadership race and was banished to the backbenches by May.

Theo

It was a f*cking joke. People are way too triggered by everything these days.

Posted on 9/12/16 | 5:48 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

An English Minister of Justice referring to KKK and drawing parells of such to the UK? This is inordinate!

Posted on 9/12/16 | 6:37 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

Bad jokes is what we read daily in the British media. The British media and most of the British politicians are a joke.
Gove´s reference to the KKK should not go unnoticed by the British authorities on racism, nor by Theresa May. This is racism in its purest form, a racism which dates back to the USA´s 18th century.
But the UK´s old guard is still living in their old empire, where they could command blacks as nether folk.
Really, these racist British politicians have no place in a modern EU. The sooner these old racists leave, the better. They are the ones who made the UK poor, with their elitist upper-crust, always leaving the common folk in poverty. Such is the history of the UK!

Posted on 9/12/16 | 7:14 PM CET

DanTheMan

So what he said KKK. If you can’t understand it please continue with the mock outrage you think you should feel. This is classic British satire. Get a life peeps.